Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The History of Sound” is a gay love story in which no one ever comes out and says what’s on their minds. We get why. The film is ...

Thu, September 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM UTC The grandiose, sweeping emotional gestures toward repression and latent desire out of something like “Brokeback Mountain” are nowhere here, Hermanus instead ...

A historical romance starring Josh O’Connor and Paul Mescal, two of Hollywood’s most popular stars at the moment, could easily be a film that leaves a lasting and hard-hitting impact. In the weeks ...

Paul Mescal in "The History of Sound" (Cannes Film Festival) Don’t let the title fool you: “The History of Sound” is an awfully muted affair. Muted in color, performance, tenor and tone, Olivier ...

In the film "The History Of Sound," two young men search for authentic folk tunes as they hike through the backwoods of Maine. Critic Bob Mondello says the World War I era romance is a story of music ...

Oliver Hermanus' wartime romance, which premiered at Cannes, arrives in theaters this September. Two of the indie film world’s favorite young actors will share the screen this fall in what many are ...

At the heart of History of Sound is a wonderful gay romance between two men during the early 1900s. But don’t make any comparisons to Brokeback Mountain, please, per the movie’s star Paul Mescal and ...

There are a lot of movies about the transformative power of music. There are few that take it to such literal and metaphysical heights as The History of Sound. A triumph of metaphor and screen ...

Until I finished watching Oliver Hermanus’ “The History of Sound,” I had trouble placing my ambivalence about Paul Mescal as a marquee actor. I’ve heard people rave about him in “Aftersun” and ...

Official image from ‘The History of Sound’ courtesy of Universal Pictures. As the lights turned back on in the theater after Oliver Hermanus’ (“Living”) World War I romance “The History of Sound,” the ...

"The History of Sound" is a gay love story in which no one ever comes out and says what's on their minds. We get why. The film is set in the early 20th century, and its two lead characters start off ...